Oct 19, 2021
Andrew Steinwold, managing partner at Sfermion, and John Egan, CEO at L'Atelier BNP Paribas, discuss NFTs and debate the characteristics of the metaverse. Show highlights:
- their backgrounds and how they got into NFTs
- how they each define the metaverse
- what NFTs have to do with the metaverse
- how John and Andrew’s depiction of the metaverse differs
- what John thinks about Facebook’s entrance into the metaverse
- whether Second Life is a metaverse game
- how blockchain technology allows for an open metaverse (and why Web2 is “communist”)
- what NFTs currently unlock for the metaverse
- whether the metaverse will necessarily have to be experienced through augmented reality
- whether there will be multiple metaverses across different blockchain platforms
- why John thinks NFT maxis and crypto maxis are destined to clash
- how the metaverse is changing how people generate income
- how to make the metaverse more accessible
- whether regulators will force the metaverse to be siloed
- how the metaverse will handle jurisdictional disputes
- what happens when someone’s Web3 avatar/identity is stolen in the metaverse
- what John and Andrew predict will happen in the metaverse over the next 6-12 months.
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John Egan
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- Content
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- NFTs are like gambling, but could be the bedrock of virtual economy
- Wired article on NFTs
L’Atelier
- NFT Content
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- How NFTs are changing ownership
- The Virtual economy
- Real estate NFTs
- Metaverse Content
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- Unified coms vs. the Metaverse
- Primer on the metaverse
- Digital anthropology
Andrew Steinwold
- Blog must-reads
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- A quick overview of the NFT ecosystem
- NFTs will introduce the world to crypto?
- Why functional NFTs will gain value slower than crypto art
- History of NFTs
- NFT Value Drivers